At least the fiasco is making the main stream press more and more. This reporter seems to get it to some degree.

"It may seem self-evident that virtual classrooms should closely
resemble real ones. But a major education software company contends it
wasn't always so obvious. And now, in a move that has shaken up the
e-learning community, Blackboard Inc. has been awarded a patent
establishing its claims to some of the basic features of the software
that powers online education."

"As reported on CircleID, Vint Cerf has confirmed that ICANN's new contracts for the .org/.biz/.info domain prices can be tiered,
so that google.biz could cost $1 million per year, while sex.biz could
cost $100,000/year. This is very similar to how the .tv TLD already
works. The domain registrar could also could also use pricing for
political purposes, claiming that pricing sex.biz high would be to
'protect the children,' while icann.org could be priced at $1/year.
Verisign's contract for .com and .net have recently been renewed, so
those domains are safe for now, but I'm sure they would want similar
treatment."

"The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has passed a regulation requiring car makers to inform customers when their car has been equipped with an Event Data Recorder, the agency said Monday.

EDRs, similar to "black boxes" used in commercial airliners, record data about what a car is doing in the moments just before and after a crash. They do not record the voices of occupants but they do record things like steering wheel movement, how hard the brakes are being pressed and the actual movement of the car itself.

Some privacy advocates have expressed concern that the data, which can
be used as evidence in court cases, is being collected without the
knowledge of vehicle owners and drivers."

"The loans under scrutiny include interest-only mortgages and "option"
mortgages, in which borrowers decide each month how much to repay.
Because monthly payments are lower than with traditional fixed-rate
mortgages, borrowers can buy more expensive houses. In the past five
years, millions of Americans have bought or refinanced homes using
these loans. The risk comes because eventually these loans "reset,"
meaning the payment is adjusted upward -- sometimes as much as doubling
-- to repay the full interest and principal owed."